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as a video game fan, I think this is kind of interesting
'''''Spore''''' is a forthcoming [[computer]] [[video game|game]] by Will Wright, the creator of ''The Sims'' and the ''SimCity'' series, which has currently peaked at ''SimCity 4''. Wright has aspired to the creation of video games which mimic or replicate life, in an entertaining fashion, and the trend of the SimCity games was towards greater accuracy, realism, depth of control, and detail.
In this sense, ''Spore'' is a departure from the trend. In the game, the player takes control of a single cell, and guides its [[evolution]] through a vast time span, eventually becoming an [[animal]] and a [[civilization]]. Accordingly, ''Spore'' implicitly accepts the [[theory of evolution]] as truth, and rejects the creationary time scale. ''Spore'' follows in a line of simulation games which glorify evolution as truth and the pinnacle of biological science - the computer game ''[[Civilization (video game)|Civilization]]'' does the same - but ''Spore'' is especially worrying for the central role which evolution plays in the computer game's premise.
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In this sense, ''Spore'' is a departure from the trend. In the game, the player takes control of a single cell, and guides its [[evolution]] through a vast time span, eventually becoming an [[animal]] and a [[civilization]]. Accordingly, ''Spore'' implicitly accepts the [[theory of evolution]] as truth, and rejects the creationary time scale. ''Spore'' follows in a line of simulation games which glorify evolution as truth and the pinnacle of biological science - the computer game ''[[Civilization (video game)|Civilization]]'' does the same - but ''Spore'' is especially worrying for the central role which evolution plays in the computer game's premise.
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